Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 5, 2013

It was a sultry day in Philadelphia. Monthly design of the supply chain including form and function of inventory and inventory placement. Focus on the level of inventory. Inventory is often focused on as a singular metric, not as part of a complex supply chain system. Last week, it felt like August not May.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The gloomy streets will soon be alive with Mummers to ring in the New Year in Philadelphia. The Mummers Parade is a Philadelphia tradition. In a nutshell, the research states there is a correlation between cost, inventory, and forecast performance. The streets below me today are icy and wet. It is a dark and dismal day.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 16, 2023

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Spirit Halloween are two of those companies that participated in the conference sessions. This annual and agile business model makes it extremely important that the company has visibility of its inventory across locations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

When we study 600 public companies by peer group, at the intersection of inventory turns and operating margin, only 5% drive improvement. In this case, the metrics are operating margin and inventory turns. Operating margin is a measurement of profitability and inventory turns is a measurement of how fast inventory turns based on sales.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 30, 2018

Energizer and Unilever are driving the fastest rates of improvement and Clorox and P&G improvement rates are the slowest on the Metrics That Matter of Growth, Operating Margin, Inventory Turns, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)). Average Performance Metrics for Consumer Nondurable Industry for the Period of 2010-2017. What Is Risk?

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Across the industry, we find that companies think that they are managing costs and inventory better through technology investments like supply chain planning, but they have a false sense of accomplishment. There will be no technology sales personnel or market teams at the 2018 Summit in Philadelphia. The answer is simple.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Research shared by APICS suggested that the biggest impact on revenue, total SC cost, inventory, and adaptability is the capability to successfully link S&OP to daily/weekly tactical planning & execution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cooper includes southern New Jersey’s only Level I trauma center (Cooper University Hospital), which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region. If they were dependent, did they have East Coast distribution centers where they could preplace inventory before the strike occurred.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 26, 2018

They will meet the Philadelphia Eagles, who crushed the Minnesota Vikings 38-7 in the NFC title game, a week from Sunday in Minneapolis, MN. In yet another impressive comeback, the New England Patriots topped the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20 in the AFC title game to move on to their 10th Super Bowl, and 8th in the Belichick – Brady era.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 16, 2018

Companies that are better at supply chain planning are better able to manage operating margins and inventory turns. The event is on September 4th-7th in Philadelphia, PA. We sit on 9,000 quantitative responses and we want to better understand the drivers of supply chain excellence. It is the same as a flip of the coin. .”

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 11, 2015

Companies are aggressive in the design of inventory buffers with active work through network design to build the right push-pull decoupling points, implementation of supplier monitoring and score carding, and the development of business continuity plans. Focus on Multi-Tier Inventory Management. Impact of Supply Chain Disruptions.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 21, 2015

In Figure 1, I share an analysis of user satisfaction of demand, tactical supply, inventory and Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) technologies using this technique. There are more outliers in the inventory and demand planning responses creating longer ‘whiskers.’ What else do we see in the data?

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DELMIA Quintiq

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia 2016, attendees were encouraged to think about the past, present and future of their businesses from a fresh perspective as they gained insights into the latest analytics and optimization technology. Did you attend Quintiq World Tour Philadelphia? Let me know what you thought!

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2015

However, for elements like forecast error, customer service and slow-moving inventory self-reported data is not sufficient. 4) Best Forecasters do not Have the Best Inventory Results. In this work, Debra would take a month of forecasting, inventory and other supply chain data and evaluate trends. Increase in Complexity?

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2018

My caution is not so fast… 95% of companies are not making progress at the intersection of growth, operating margin, inventory turns and asset strategies. Here I show orbit chart comparisons at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns for the period of 2006-2017. This is especially true for the Titans.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 6, 2015

It is finally spring in Philadelphia. I am busy finalizing a report on the current state of the inventory optimization market, rewriting and updating a report on Sales and Operations technologies, and penning a new report on Supply Chain Centers of Excellence. (We I love spring. It is a time for awakening.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Research shared by APICS suggested that the biggest impact on revenue, total SC cost, inventory, and adaptability is the capability to successfully link S&OP to daily/weekly tactical planning & execution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 17, 2015

2) Inventory is a Hot Potato that No One Wants, but Everyone Needs To Own… In the process of feeding the beast, inventory is a hot potato that no one wants, but everyone needs to own. The first challenge, is to define a job position and process for inventory management. Figure 5: Inventory Ownership.

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Supply Chain Insights

JUNE 1, 2017

This past month I attended our Supply Chain Insights Bootcamp training led by Lora Cecere in Philadelphia and facilitated the first course of a Cross-Company Academy training, End-to-End Supply Chain Orchestration. For example, inventory turns are plotted with operating margin (see Figure 2).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 25, 2015

It is a beautiful fall day in Philadelphia. While many consultants argue on the name–the debate rages with strong arguments of “Should it be Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP), or consensus planning?”–the It is always fun to write great research. Figure 1.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Last week, I spoke at the CPHA supply chain conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Companies that are good at demand management understand the need for design–form & function of inventory and push/pull decoupling points –and the orchestration of demand to make better decisions in sourcing, transportation and delivery.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

But the truth is that Black Friday owes its name to the Philadelphia Police Department, which did not have profitability in mind.”[1] In the middle years of the twentieth century, the scene was often particularly bad in Philadelphia, where the annual Army-Navy football game was regularly played on the weekend after Thanksgiving.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 29, 2015

While companies want to improve costs and inventory, most are going backwards. The Supply Chain is a Complex System with Increasing Complexity. While many consultants will wave their hands and promise improvements in costs and inventory through projects, take pause. Avoid Artificially Constraining Inventory Levels.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 3, 2018

And, when companies are better at supply chain planning (which is largely determined by talent development) their supply chains are more resilient and better balanced between cost and inventory targets. We hope to see you at the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit on September 4-7, 2018 in Philadelphia, PA. Strategy to Network Design.

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AIMMS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

It was a pleasure to attend this month’s Supply Chain Insights Summit in Philadelphia. Research shared by APICS suggested that the biggest impact on revenue, total SC cost, inventory, and adaptability is the capability to successfully link S&OP to daily/weekly tactical planning & execution.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 3, 2015

Inventory Turns (15%) (based on 2014 results). The foundation to drive meaningful improvement is reliability in driving results at the intersection of costs, inventory and customer service. for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the content for the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 18, 2015

When there is a common reporting strategy, progress in metrics performance at the intersection of operating margin and inventory turns is faster. for the public training in Philadelphia i n August and the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit in September. This is a sign of organizational maturity.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 13, 2015

I knew nothing about the world of logistics, inventory management and order optimization. From the research, we know that when organizations have source, make and deliver reporting to the same leader, that supply chain performance improves (intersection of operating margin and inventory turns). The year was 1985.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In March 2020, Real Estate Investor/Tax Analyst Carlos Colon (a Philadelphia native, raised in Puerto Rico) decided to bring an idea of his to life; one which was building in his heart for a long period of time. Soon thereafter, the genesis of #ThankX was born: Concierge Community Couriers (based in our very own Philadelphia)!

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 5, 2015

These giants drove slight improvements in operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) despite a slowing economy. Over the past two years, P&G made impressive gains in operating margin and inventory turns, but the company failed to equal the ROIC test for asset utilization.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 15, 2015

I am writing this blog post in the air, sitting in seat 4c, somewhere over the Midwest en route to Philadelphia. It bundles Integrated Business Planning, a Supply Chain Control Tower, Inventory and Demand/Supply planning into a new cloud-based architecture based on HANA. The land looks like a giant puzzle. These are my thoughts.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 23, 2017

Understand inventory write-offs, impact of forecast processes and technology satisfaction in the planning benchmarking. Three courses are scheduled for in Philadelphia. Use our Metrics That Matter methodology to look at improvement and performance. Use the information to set targets for a balanced scorecard. Scalable pricing available.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 7, 2015

I advocate a portfolio of growth, EBITDA or operating margin, inventory turns, on-time and in-full shipments, and Return on Invested Capital (ROIC). If you would like the opportunity to network with others on these topics, consider our public training in Philadelphia in June and August. __. I would love to hear yours.

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Stord

MAY 8, 2024

Super Coffee experienced explosive growth, starting from humble beginnings out of the dorm room of a Philadelphia University dormitory in 2015 to over $70 million in sales in 2021. Super Coffee required a truly integrated technical solution to bring needed clarity to its inventory and orders across all its partners.

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Given that the study was funded by an Atlanta-based group, the results are hardly authoritative (for instance, a number of major cities, such as Boston, Charlotte, Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, are not included in the study), but they do offer an interesting view on the supply chain capabilities of seven major regions.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 8, 2016

The orders are being fulfilled from about 160 Best Buy stores in markets that include Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and Washington. Most delivery fees range from $12 to $20, except for printer ink, which Best Buy is delivering for free.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 3, 2016

The combination of weather and the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia delayed all my flights for at least two hours on multiple days. As Karen and I set out on foot, my legs, tired from ballet classes, and my body weary from a tough week on the road struggled. As a result, for three consecutive nights, I crawled into bed at 2:30 AM.

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